“It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.”

“There's definitely a luxury to the fluidity of not being a mega-star. I've done a ton of really, really odd, off-the-wall movies. There's this movie I did called 'Queens of Country' a couple of summers ago that is so bananas, and if I was at a certain level, I probably would not have done that movie”